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WILLIAN. SOMERSET MAUGHAM |
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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.[Of Human Bondage] |
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. |
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We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. |
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There are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. |
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Only a mediocre man is always at his best. |
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No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. |
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit |
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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. |
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